Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-05-16
at1onth' Column
Pinkey-


little GIRL came out of the gardel
door of an old-fashioned house oil
Pleasant avenue. The boys car
ried a small box, and the little CIR
a toy spade. They moved solemni1
back under the elm trees, and wheI
near the garden wall they paused
The boys dug hole few feet deer
and laid the box in it. The othel
child held her apron to her eyes anC
wept. They were very matter-of.
fact boys and piled the earth over
the box in a business-like way
Every time the earth struck the box
a great sob broke from under the
apron. 1t was all over soon, and
when the young lady with the brown
ewes and dark hair asked the little
girl why she was crying, she took
the apron from her tear-stained eyes
and said: ''Thev have (sob) just
buried (another sob Pinkey there. .
Who was Pinkey? Pinkey was
a pussy cat, and its life and history
were very dear to the infantile fun
eral party.
Pinkey, every one thought, had
never done anything remarkable in
her life, and her death, occasioned
by a severe cold, was certainly suffi-
GENTLY commonplace not to have at
tracted very wide attention.
1--WE got Pinkey,'' said the little
girl, ''when She was, oh very small.
She was so small that she could not
see, and at first we thought she had
been born blind. They told us that
all pussy cats were born blind, but
we never would believe that Pinkev
would see until one morning her eyes
were wide open, and they were pink
eyes, so we called her Pinkey. l
must say" continued the little miss,
THAT she was always a very wild
pussy cat, and l often told her that
consumption or some such terrible
disease would be her end. She was
just the same as other kittens only |
noticed that at very early age she
used to sit at the window and look
out in the yard. She would sit some
times for hours and hours that way,
and | came to the conclusion that
she must have heard my brother
talking about going to sea and hunt
ing bears, and that she too, had made
up her mind to see the world. So,
whenever | saw her looking out,
would always take her in my arms,
give her all the yarn ] could find for
her to play with, and all the milk she
could drink. 1t was useless. She
would go again and again to the
window, and one day she went out.
"She didn't come home that night
nor the next, and / waited and wait
ed and hoped that nothing had hap
pened to her. And, oh, didn't / feel
glad when she did come back, and
gave her a big saucer of milk and
the very best yarn in the house.
She was a good pussy then for
long, long while, and it was not for
a month afterward that / saw her
again at the window. A great fear
came over me. and ! led her away
but she went out again and again
every night, and only came back in
the mornings One day she killed a
tiny mouse. and Immediately ran
with it to the door and cried as
though her heart would break, to be
to 90 out. / opened the
door, and away she ran with the
mouse over the fence. and she did
not return for a week. Her eyes
were red, too, and she seemed very
thin. The next day Pinkey caught
another mouse, and | cried: ooh,
George George do follow Pinkev
and see where she goes He ran
down the garden and sprang over
the wall, but when he got into the
churchyard beyond all he could see
was the snip of Pinkey's tail going
around the corner. Every day after
that George tried to follow her, but
couldn't, and SO | staid at the church
corner, and one afternoon | saw Pin
key come dashing by with a little
brown mouse in her mouth. | ran
behind her, and saw her 90 under
the church, and there l lost her. /
went into the churchyard, under the
great dark floor of the church, and
searched all around for Pinkev.
There is a boiler in the church for
heating it on Sunday, and down by
its side l heard pussy's voice that
| knew was Pinkey's. | hurried
there, and would you believe it, ~
ing on a little straw was Pinkev.
l could see by her eyes that she was
dying. Lying on the straw, too,
was another little pussy that had
been born the same day as Pinkey,
and had fallen off fence and broken
her leg. She was Pinkey's sister,
and SO | knew that my pussy had
been saving all her mice and dainties
to give her lame sister under the
church floor. They died there that
day poor Pinkey from being out at
night, and papa says her sisters leg
must have become infamed and |
caused her death. He buried them |
N the same box. Dear, dear where
shall ever get such another pussy"
40 the little maid smoke and the